Chapter Summaries

Su Wen persuaded Jing Hongchen to fake his death and escape prison, then returned to Shrek Academy with the plan in place. He said they would leave within three months, before the Sun Moon Empire moved against Jing Hongchen, and hinted that he would strike the Holy Spirit Cult’s branches for revenge.

• Jing Hongchen pretended to refuse Su Wen’s offer, but Su Wen calmly prepared to leave and revealed that Xiao would be safe at Shrek Academy and that he would also visit Meng.
• Su Wen reminded Jing Hongchen that the Sun Moon Empire had betrayed him and that he had saved Xiao Hongchen from being captured or killed.
• Jing Hongchen asked Su Wen to rescue him during the coming operation and fake his death so his subordinates would not be punished, and Su Wen agreed.
• Su Wen left Jing Hongchen’s room while time was frozen, leading Jing Hongchen to realize that Su Wen could control time.
• Su Wen told Cai Meier that Jing Hongchen had agreed and that they would leave within three months, before the Sun Moon Empire acted against him.
• Su Wen said he would collect interest from the Holy Spirit Cult by targeting its Venerables and branch altars rather than its headquarters.

Su Wen appeared at a Holy Spirit Cult branch altar while Tang Ya struggled with memories the cult had suppressed. After Su Wen incinerated the Second Holy Spirit, Nangong Wan realized the supposedly dead Su Wen had returned and was facing him.

• Second Holy Spirit played cards with a Quasi Holy Spirit and discussed the cult’s Shrek Academy connections and Zhou Yi’s imprisonment.
• Tang Ya visited Zhou Yi underground, but Zhou Yi’s recognition of her triggered painful, confused memories.
• Tang Ya demanded to know what the cult was hiding, and Nangong Wan knocked her unconscious to stop her from breaking free.
• Su Wen appeared in the secret chamber and reduced the Second Holy Spirit to ashes with Ultimate Fire.
• Nangong Wan recognized Su Wen, who said he had come to collect a debt from the Holy Spirit Cult.

Su Wen continued destroying the Holy Spirit Cult’s forces, killing Lu Yang and tracking Zhang Lin to Dongyang City. There, he discovered Bai Xiuxiu imprisoned beneath the city.

• Ye Xishui learned that the Holy Spirit Cult’s elders and Sacred Altars in Ming City had been slaughtered, then realized the Third Venerable and Zhang Lin were missing and set out for Ming City with Long Xiaoyao.
• Su Wen defeated Lu Yang with his Fierce Beast, burned away the feathers Lu Yang used to escape, and inspected the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Mecha legion.
• Su Wen found Zhang Lin dead outside Dongyang City, entered the city, and followed Holy Spirit Cult members to their Sacred Altar.
• Soul Myriad Douluo and Abomination Douluo discussed capturing mermaids and Sea Soul Beasts while Su Wen entered the underground chamber where they were held.
• Su Wen found Bai Xiuxiu imprisoned in the chamber and asked why she was there.

Su Wen rescued Bai Xiuxiu and Liya, then confronted the Holy Spirit Church leaders at its Dongyang City altar and revealed that he had killed several of their Venerables. He unleashed a powerful golden-armored figure against the gathered Evil Spirit Masters, while Liya and Bai Xiuxiu watched in shock.

• Bai Xiuxiu gave Su Wen the ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber, and Su Wen freed Liya in exchange for only a few of her golden tears.
• Su Wen left the two mermaids behind and vanished to confront the Holy Spirit Church leaders at the Dongyang City branch altar.
• Zhang Lin met Soul Myriad Douluo and Abomination, who discussed their ambitions and the Church's lack of news from its Headquarters.
• Su Wen appeared and told the elders that several Venerables, including Ye Cheng, had died, then produced the intercepted Headquarters messenger's corpse.
• Zhang Lin recognized Su Wen as the killer of the elders and admitted that they had once joined the Grand Elder in trying to suppress him.
• Su Wen invoked Shrek's Surveillance Group and unleashed a golden-armored figure that burst through the underground cavern as Liya and Bai Xiuxiu watched.

Su Wen destroyed the Holy Spirit Church’s eastern stronghold in Dongyang City, then gained the Sea Princess clan’s faith after rescuing them. With the clan’s blessing, he contracted Liya, whose evolution left the Sea Princess Matriarch astonished.

• Soul Myriad Douluo, Abomination Douluo, and Zhang Lin launched a desperate attack on Su Wen, but Snow Empress froze Soul Myriad and Abomination while Xuan Ji crushed Zhang Lin.
• Su Wen told Snow Empress to eliminate the fleeing Holy Spirit Church remnants after Da Yan’s domain concealed the battle from Dongyang City’s residents.
• The Sea Princess Matriarch thanked Su Wen for rescuing her daughter and welcomed him, while the Sea Princess clan’s faith strengthened his false Divine Position.
• Snow Empress revealed that Su Wen had transformed her bloodline and urged the Sea Princess clan to seize the chance to evolve through contracts with him.
• Liya agreed to contract with Su Wen and evolved from a Sea Princess into a Deep Sea Singer and then a Tidecaller Priest, gaining three powerful skills.

Su Wen secured the Sea Princess clan’s resources and rescued Jing Hongchen from prison during a staged attack, bringing the Soul Tool researcher into his Battle Armor project. After witnessing Xu Jiangliu exploit the prison disaster to purge the military, Su Wen and Jing Hongchen prepared to return to Shrek Academy.

• Liya’s bloodline advanced after Su Wen gave her a black sphere, and she bestowed the Blessing of the Sacrifice on him.
• Su Wen reached an exchange agreement with the Sea Princess clan for undersea resources and planned Operation Save Jing Hongchen.
• Xu Jiangliu visited Jing Hongchen in prison, revealed the emperor had ordered his death, and agreed to spare Lin Jiayi and the others after Jing Hongchen’s execution.
• The Body Sect attacked the prison, and Xu Jiangliu’s forces reported that Jing Hongchen had died in the explosion while Xu Jiangliu used the disaster as grounds to punish the military.
• Su Wen and the rescued Jing Hongchen watched from above as the prison burned, then agreed to return to Shrek Academy that day.

Tang San learned that Destruction had humiliated Dai Mubai and plotted to use the next Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament to trap Su Wen, the Silver Dragon King, and others in Qiankun Wenqing Valley. Meanwhile, Su Wen woke beside Ma Xiaotao and visited Shrek Academy’s Soul Guidance Department, where Jing Hongchen was demanding rare metals and offering to train Qian Duoduo.

• Tang San comforted Dai Mubai after Destruction beat him, then resolved to wait for a chance to build his power and bring the Silver Dragon King and Su Wen under his control.
• Daming and Erming activated the Back Altar, and Tang San learned that his clone had been killed by Su Wen and its Divine Sense Fragments devoured by the Silver Dragon King.
• Tang San ordered Daming and Erming to cooperate with the Sun Moon Empire’s Hunting Plan and lure Shrek Academy into Qiankun Wenqing Valley during the next tournament.
• Su Wen woke beside Ma Xiaotao in the Golden Tree and flew to the Soul Guidance Department at Shrek Academy.
• Jing Hongchen pressed Qian Duoduo to obtain rare metals and offered to train him as a Soul Engineer, while Su Wen said he had found a lead on the ore Jing needed.

Su Wen secured a yearly supply of undersea minerals from the Sea Princess Clan, then reunited with Zhang Lexuan and warned her that the Sun Moon Empire planned to use an expanded tournament to gather and capture the continent’s leading factions. The chapter ended with Ye Xishui refusing to warn the Sun Moon Empire about Su Wen and vowing to kill him herself.

• Su Wen told Jing Hongchen that the Sea Princess Clan would deliver undersea ores in exchange for mainland goods, and Jing Hongchen accepted the arrangement before leaving to rebuild the Soul Guidance Department.
• Xian Lin'er dragged Qian Duoduo away after he joked about Su Wen and the Sea Soul Beasts, while Su Wen examined Bai Xiuxiu's advancement path and found it led toward the Sky Blue Water Devouring Dragon.
• Su Wen visited Zhang Lexuan in her office, and they kissed before reading a report that the Sun Moon Empire would open its tournament to sects.
• Su Wen warned Zhang Lexuan that the Sun Moon Empire planned to gather the continent's strongest factions at the tournament and capture them, while she realized its Soul Tools could let it conquer the other powers.
• A Holy Spirit Cult elder urged Ye Xishui to inform the Sun Moon Empire that Su Wen had survived, but Ye Xishui refused because she wanted the war to begin and intended to kill Su Wen herself.

Zhang Lexuan told Su Wen about the academy’s planned Star Dou Great Forest trip and the trouble Dai Huabin was causing, prompting Su Wen to take charge of reforming the Surveillance Group. At the Sea God Pavilion meeting, the elders honored Su Wen for destroying fourteen Sun Moon Sacred Altars, then signed him up for the Sea God’s Fate Blind Date Event, leaving him dreading the romantic turmoil ahead.

• Zhang Lexuan told Su Wen that Xie Huanyue, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng had entered the Inner Courtyard, while Dai Huabin had formed the White Tiger Gang and was bullying students.
• Su Wen agreed to lead the academy’s Core Disciples on their Star Dou Great Forest hunt and called for a Sea God Pavilion meeting to discuss reforming the Surveillance Group.
• Su Wen reported destroying fourteen Sun Moon Sacred Altars and killing six Titled Douluo and two Super Douluo, shocking the elders.
• Mu En had Su Wen’s deeds added to the Honor Monument and appointed him Sea God Pavilion Elder and Deputy Head of the Surveillance Group.
• Mu En revealed that he had registered Su Wen for the Sea God’s Fate Blind Date Event, and the elders urged him to attend while offering to handle his duties.

Su Wen forced Yan Shaozhe to honor his promise of an Inner Courtyard graduation assessment and defeated him with the Golden Behemoth Little Gold. The disciples witnessed Su Wen’s overwhelming strength as he healed Yan Shaozhe and insisted that the assessment’s result still needed to be declared.

• Su Wen reminded Yan Shaozhe that he had promised to assess his Inner Courtyard graduation, and Mu En insisted Yan Shaozhe uphold the tradition.
• Yan Shaozhe and Su Wen began their duel in the advanced training ground, where Su Wen summoned Xuanji and attacked with a series of powerful moves.
• Zhang Yi defeated Han Ruoruo in another training ground, then invited several disciples to spar before a thunderous fight shook the facility nearby.
• Little Gold burst through the training ground and overpowered Yan Shaozhe while Su Wen stood on its head, astonishing the Inner Courtyard disciples who came to watch.
• Yan Shaozhe conceded and coughed up blood, but Su Wen reminded him that Yan still had to declare whether he had passed his graduation assessment, then healed him with Azure Luan.

Su Wen defeated Yan Shaozhe, earned renewed acclaim, and began training Shrek Academy’s Inner Courtyard Disciples to make the Surveillance Group better prepared to fight Evil Spirit Masters. He explained to Mu En that he wanted to reform Shrek before turning to the Forging Department, where he revealed that he had brought both the Auspicious Beast and the Soul Beast Lord to the academy.

• Ma Xiaotao joked that Yan Shaozhe had been too weak after Su Wen defeated him, while the injured dean pretended not to hear her.
• Inner Courtyard Disciples discovered that Su Wen’s Honor Monument recorded six Titled Douluo Evil Spirit Masters and two Super Douluos among his kills.
• Su Wen assigned Wang Yan to teach seventeen Inner Courtyard Disciples theory and outlined practical training against Evil Spirit Masters.
• Su Wen told Mu En that he wanted to reform Shrek so its disciples would not die carelessly while serving the academy, and Mu En promised to support him.
• Old Du praised the Forging Department’s talented students, then realized Mu Qiu'er was the Auspicious Beast after Su Wen confirmed it.
• Su Wen further revealed that he had brought the Soul Beast Lord to Shrek along with the Auspicious Beast, leaving Old Du speechless.

Su Wen revealed to Wang Dong'er that she was a Soul Fragment of Tang San’s daughter, then joined Shrek Academy’s expedition team and demonstrated his expertise in Soul Guidance Devices. The chapter ended with a student asking whether Su Wen was a Ninth-Level Soul Guidance Master.

• Wang Dong'er finished forging Thousand-Refined Silver, and Su Wen took her for a walk beside Sea God Lake.
• Su Wen told Wang Dong'er that Tang San had split his daughter’s soul, placing one fragment in her and intending to restore Princess Tang while erasing Wang Dong'er’s personality.
• Wang Dong'er cried in Su Wen’s arms as nearby Outer Court disciples mistook them for a couple breaking up.
• Jiang Nannan and Bai Se waited with the expedition team while Zhang Leng and a Soul Guidance Department student argued about their departments’ strengths.
• Su Wen arrived with Wang Dong'er, silenced Zhang Leng, and assigned him to the Sea God Pavilion Surveillance Group’s Special Training Class after the mission.
• Su Wen inspected the student’s Soul Guidance Sniper Rifle and explained its design, surprising the student when he said he had forged the first Ice-Fire Enchanted Sniper Rifle.

Su Wen led a Shrek Academy group into the Star Dou Great Forest, gave Jiang Nannan a custom Soul Tool, and deepened their romance. Meanwhile, Tang San used the God Realm Central Hub to manipulate energy and pursued his plan to take control of Douluo Planet.

• Su Wen confirmed that twenty-seven students were present and led the group into the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Su Wen gave Jiang Nannan a Soul Tool Storage Ring containing a custom close-combat Soul Tool, and they shared a passionate kiss.
• Zhang Leng told Bai Se that Su Wen was the famed Inner Courtyard prodigy, leaving her excited to learn that her idol had been beside her.
• Tang San reflected on how he had secretly diverted energy from the God Realm Central Hub to Douluo Planet as part of his plan to replace its Spirit of the Plane.
• Tang San invoked Qiankun Wenqing Valley and declared that everything was under control.

Su Wen discussed reforming Shrek Academy to give commoners more chances to awaken their martial souls and advance, then spent the night with Jiang Nannan. The next morning, Gu Yuena appeared beside Hurricane and calmly admitted she had bothered Su Wen.

• Su Wen mistook Bai Se’s admiration for a desire to fight, and she ran off crying after he invited her to spar.
• At camp, Su Wen told Jiang Nannan he wanted Shrek Academy to open advancement paths for commoners through regional branches and martial-soul awakenings.
• Jiang Nannan comforted Su Wen with a massage, and the two spent the night together in a separate tent.
• The next morning, Su Wen found Gu Yuena beside Hurricane, and she said she counted as the Soul Beast who had bothered him.

Gu Yuena brought Su Wen to the Lake of Life to discuss the Spirit Beast Race’s survival with the Fierce Beasts. She chose to pursue peaceful coexistence with humanity through Su Wen’s proposed changes, then watched as Xuan Ji and Azure Luan revealed how far they had evolved.

• Gu Yuena took Su Wen to the core region, where she reprimanded Bear Lord for objecting to his presence at the meeting.
• Gu Yuena said humans would continue exploiting spirit beasts and asked Su Wen to propose ways to protect the race.
• Su Wen suggested peaceful coexistence or moving the Spirit Beast Race to another planet after he became a god, and Gu Yuena chose to remain on their homeland and pursue coexistence.
• Su Wen proposed eliminating Soul Rings and Spirit Bones and replacing them with a contract system after he became a god, and Gu Yuena agreed to wait.
• Bi Ji and Bear Lord asked Su Wen to summon their contracted descendants, and Xuan Ji and Azure Luan appeared with dramatically evolved bloodlines and strength near that of the Fierce Beasts.

Gu Yuena explained that her contract with Su Wen could let the Spirit Beast Race enter the God Realm, while Bi Ji and Bear Lord regretted not taking the chance to become his Pet Beasts. After Su Wen returned from the Star Dou Great Forest, Ah Yin revealed an immense hidden energy within the Golden Tree, and Su Wen recognized it as the Power of Faith.

• Gu Yuena told Di Tian and the Fierce Beasts that evolving into the Dragon God could open a path for Spirit Beasts to become gods, leaving Bear Lord and Bi Ji to regret missing the chance to contract with Su Wen.
• At the camp in the Star Dou Great Forest, Shen Ying teased Jiang Nannan about Su Wen, then the group discussed their plans and the dangers of joining Shrek Academy's Inner Courtyard.
• Zhang Leng warned Bai Se that missions against Evil Spirit Masters were deadly, but Bai Se remained determined to join the Inner Courtyard's Surveillance Group.
• Su Wen praised Bai Se and said Shrek Academy would change how it sent young people into danger, while the Inner Courtyard Disciples listened with surprise.
• Several days later, Su Wen returned to the academy, where Ah Yin disclosed that the Golden Tree concealed an enormous store of energy.
• Su Wen entered the Golden Tree's internal space and identified the vast energy as the Power of Faith.

Su Wen gave Electrolux the vast Power of Faith stolen from the God Realm so he could attempt to become the God of Death and protect Su Wen. At Shrek Academy, Su Wen confronted Dai Huabin over his bullying, and the chapter ended with Su Wen pinning him to the floor.

• Electrolux sensed the immense, unfiltered Power of Faith and planned to use it to repair his Divine Sense and become the God of Death; Su Wen encouraged him.
• Su Wen asked Electrolux for advice about managing the Sea God's Fate Blind Date Event, but Electrolux lost his temper and ordered him to leave.
• Electrolux began preparing to condense a Godhead inside the Golden Tree, while Su Wen left him to the task.
• Dai Huabin swaggered toward the Outer Court teachers' office with his lackeys, including Bao Guowei, after they had bullied a younger girl.
• Su Wen met with Mu Jin and summoned Dai Huabin into the office, where Mu Jin confronted him about his violence and harassment.
• Dai Huabin reacted furiously when Mu Jin mentioned Zhu Lu, and Su Wen's pressure made him cough blood and pinned him to the floor.

Su Wen punished Dai Huabin and his accomplices for harassing a younger student, then Jing Hongchen was drawn into helping Shrek’s Soul Guidance Department. Meanwhile, Zhang Leng cleared the basic Evil Spirit Master training and joined his fellow Inner Courtyard disciples in a group dungeon in the White Spirit Mountains.

• Su Wen expelled Dai Huabin, Bao Guowei, and their accomplice, ordered them to pay compensation, and publicly exposed their misconduct; after Dai Huabin threatened the girl, Su Wen crippled him and warned the White Tiger Duke Mansion to protect her.
• At the White Tiger Duke Mansion, Zhu Ling learned that Dai Huabin had been expelled, fined, and crippled, and angrily blamed Shrek Academy.
• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo persuaded Jing Hongchen to help develop a linked defensive Soul Guidance Device, and he demanded that they put their claims in writing.
• Zhang Leng entered Su Wen’s simulated training ground, defeated thirteen Holy Spirit Cult disciples, and completed its basic training challenges.
• Zhang Leng chose intermediate training and was transported to a group dungeon, where Wang Yan briefed him and the other Inner Courtyard disciples on clearing Evil Spirit Masters from the White Spirit Mountains.

Zhang Leng and Wang Bo’s team experienced a brutal recreation of the Mingdou Mountain Range mission in Su Wen’s training ground, while Su Wen explained the simulation to the Inner Courtyard Disciples. In the real Mingdou Mountain Range, Dai Hao received a letter from the Duke’s Mansion and erupted in anger over what he saw as Shrek’s humiliation.

• Wang Bo recognized the Wenlan Trees as clues to finding the Evil Spirit Masters, and Zhang Leng led the team to search for hollowed-out cores.
• Zhang Leng and his teammates entered a cave, where a trap involving a Soul King corpse killed four of them and left most of the rest gravely injured.
• Xuan Zi charged into the cave but was toyed with by the Death Messenger, who escaped, and Zhang Leng and Wang Bo realized the simulation reflected the original mission’s events.
• Su Wen revealed that the training ground used Da Yan’s Spiritual Power and the Sea God’s Authority to recreate battles from his own experiences, then dismissed the trainees.
• Dai Hao received a letter from the Duke’s Mansion and angrily declared that Shrek had humiliated him.

Dai Hao learned that Shrek Academy had crippled Dai Huabin and demanded compensation, but he could only suppress his anger and plan to seek justice in person. Su Wen inherited Electrolux’s magic and considered new ways for humans and Soul Beasts to cooperate, then tried to manage who would attend the Sea God’s Fate Blind Date Event before Ma Xiaotao dragged him into the bathroom.

• Dai Hao learned Dai Huabin had been crippled at Shrek Academy and that the academy demanded one million Gold Soul Coins in compensation.
• Dai Hao decided to go to Shrek Academy and demand justice despite Du Leisi warning him against provoking the academy.
• Electrolux explained his vision for the cycle of souls and offered to pass his Necromancy and other magic to Su Wen.
• Su Wen received Electrolux’s magical knowledge and considered adapting Contract Magic to create partnerships between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Su Wen reviewed the women he had sent away to prevent them from attending the Sea God’s Fate Blind Date Event, then Ma Xiaotao dragged him toward the bathroom.